Truth Quotes
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This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
Catherynne M. Valente
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To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.
Ewa Kopacz
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Books do pretend ...but squeezed in between is even more that is true—without what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
Matthew Pearl
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I think, to me, I always want to tell the truth. I never want to sugarcoat things. I've never been accused of pulling punches.
Lena Waithe
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When a new truth enters the world, the first stage of reaction to it is ridicule, the second stage is violent opposition, and in the third stage, that truth comes to be regarded as self-evident.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Art is not truth; art is the lie which makes us see the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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An unconscious, gentle process whereby people who want to be loving attempt to be so by telling little white lies, by withholding some of the truth about themselves and their feelings in order to avoid conflict. Pseudocommunity is conflict-avoiding; true community is conflict-resolving.
M. Scott Peck
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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
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Woven into our lives is the very fire from the stars and the genes from the sea creatures, and everyone, utterly everyone, is kin in the radiant tapestry of being. This relationship is not external or extrinsic to our identity but wells up as the defining truth from our deepest being.
Elizabeth A. Johnson
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Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.
Colin Welland
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Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Our analysis of truth and falsehood, or of the nature of judgment, is not very likely to be influenced by our hopes and fears.
Charles D. Broad
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It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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We are all afraid of the truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.
Sigmund Freud
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Truth rides best In that which looks ridiculous.
Eugene J. Martin
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People always think that because of 'Dr. Quinn' that I just play nice family stuff. But the truth of the matter is that 'East of Eden' was a very successful thing for me in the past. I've played a lot of very evil people in my time.
Jane Seymour
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A kiss may not be the truth, but it is what we wish were true.
Steve Martin
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As no two people see the world the same way, all trips from here to there are imaginary; all truth is a tale I am telling myself.
Brion Gysin
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A deal that would conceal the truth in this affair was never even considered.
Amr Moussa
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All I have is the truth, and I've proven that.
Jose Canseco
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The truth is, I need to experience my mother's presence in the world around me and not just in my head.
Meghan O'Rourke
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Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw